"The sin of Judah is written with pen of iron;with the point of a diamond it engraved on the tablet of their heart,and on the horns of the altars,

2 While their children remember their altars and their wooden images by the green trees on the high hills.

3 O My mountain in the field,I will give as plunder your wealth,all your treasures,and your high places of sin within all your borders.

4 And you,even yourself,shall go your heritage which O gave you;and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you do not know;for you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever."

5 Thus says the LORD:"Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,whose heart departs from the LORD.

6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,and shall not see when good comes,but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,in a salt land which is not inhabited.

7 "Blessed is man who trusts in the LORD,and whose hope is the LORD.

8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,which spreads out its roots by the river,and will not fear when heat comes;but its leaf will be green,and will not be anxious in the year of drought,nor will cease from yeelding fruit.

9 "The heart is decietful above all things,and desperately wicked;Who can know it?

10 I,the LORD,search the heart,I test the mind,even to give every man according to his ways,according to the fruit of his doings.

11 "As a partridge the broods but does not hatch,so is he who gets riches,but not by right ;it will leave him in the midst of his day,and at his end he will be a fool.

12 A glorious high throne from the begining is the places of our sanctuary.

13 O LORD,the hope of Israel,all who forsake You shall be ashamed."Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth,because they have forsaken the LORD,the foundation of living waters."

14  Heal me,O LORD,and I shall be healed ;save me,and  I shall be saved.for You are my praise.

15 Indeed they say to me,"Where is the word of the LORD ? Let it come now ! "

16  As for me,I have not hurried away from being a shepherd who follows you , nor have I desired the woeful day ; You know what came out of my lips ; it was right there before You.

17 Do not be a terror to me ;You are my hope in the day of doom.

18 Let them be ashamed who prosecute  me ,but do not let me put to shame ; let them be dismayed . Bring on them the day of doom,and destroy them with double destruction !

19 Thus the LORD sais to me :"Go and stand in the gate of the chlidren of the people,by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out,and in  all the gates of Jerusalem ;

20 "And  say to them ,'Hear the word of the LORD , you kings of Judah ,and all Judah ,and al the inhabitants of Jerusalem , who enter by these gate .

21 'Thus says  the  LORD :" Take heed to yourselves,and bear no burden on the Sabbath day ,nor bring it in by the gate of Jerusalem ;

22 "Nor carry a burden out  of your house  of the sabbath day,nor do any work,but hallow the Sabath day,as I commanded your fathers.

23 "But they did not obey nor incline their ear,but made their neckstiff,that they might not hear nor recieve instruction.

24 "And  it shall be,if you heed Me carefully,"says the LORD, "to bring no burden   through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day,to do no work in it.

25 "then shall enter the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David,riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes ,accompanied by the men of Judah and the inhabitants of a Jerusalem ;and this city shall remain forever.

26 "And they shall come from the cities of Judah and from the places around Jerusalem,from the land of Benjamin and from the  lowland,from the mountains and from the South,bringing burnt offering and sacrifices,grain offerings and incense,bringing sacrifices of praise to the house of the LORD.

27 "But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day ,such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day,then I will kindle fire in its gates,and it shall devoure the palaces of Jerusalem,and it shall not be quenched " ' "  Jeremiah 17:1-27